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The court was shocked, shocked, to find topless photos of a beautiful celeb in a French magazine. Actually, "brutal" was how the tribunal in Nanterre, France, described the pics of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge , née Kate Middleton , that appeared Friday in the magazine Closer. The court, responding to a complaint by Kate and hub Prince William , ordered the mag on Tuesday to turn over all digital copies of the pics within 24 hours and cease further publication of them. The publishers will be fined $13,100 for every day they delay.

Anybody want to buy photos of Pope John Paul II shaking hands with Franklin D. Roosevelt? I don't have any, but I can make them on my computer. It's called Desktop Photography. SnapShot ($495, for IBM) and ImageStudio ($495, for Macintosh) are new software programs that turn the computer screen into a high-tech darkroom and make all sorts of tricks possible. With SnapShot by Aldus, you can pluck any video image from a TV program, VCR, camcorder or laser disc player and freeze it. The computer translates the image into digital information and displays it on the screen.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen and at least two other teammates are being investigated by the university for possible violations of the school's conduct code. A Web site named the Big Lead posted photos Monday that appear to depict Clausen, teammates Brian Smith and James Aldridge, and one other person attending what the site labeled "Beer Olympics. " The pictures are not dated, and while there is beer on the table in front of the players, the photos do not show them consuming alcohol.

Forty years of Philadelphia's history as seen through the lens of Daily News photographer Sam Psoras are on display at the Museum and Art Collection at the CIGNA Corp.'s headquarters, 17th and Arch streets, weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Nov. 3. The free exhibit of more than 60 photos taken by Psoras since he joined the paper in 1950 features famous local faces (Grace Kelly, Frank Rizzo as a rookie cop) and long-gone landmarks such as the Latin Casino and Connie Mack Stadium and aerial views of a changing Center City.

WASHINGTON - Photos of U.S. military personnel burying Osama bin Laden will remain classified, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with the government in finding that the release of postmortem images of the founder of al-Qaeda could cause "exceptionally grave harm" to Americans. The conservative-leaning group Judicial Watch had been pressing the Pentagon and CIA to release at least a subset of 59 photos of bin Laden after he was killed in a May 2011 raid on his compound in Pakistan.

In one of her photos of the boarded-up homes on Osage Avenue near 62nd Street, the block destroyed by fire when the city dropped a bomb there 26 years ago, Drexel University student Kara Khan shows what was left behind in one vacated, rebuilt house. "There were children's school projects on the wall still," Khan said. "Toys were everywhere. Piles of clothing. I was terrified when I opened the door and thought, 'Oh my God, does someone still live here?' " To Khan, 22, who will graduate from Drexel next Saturday, the photo of the vacant home full of a family's belongings is a metaphor for the neighborhood itself.

A U.S. Airways pilot accused of using his cell phone to take pictures up the skirt of a 15-year-old girl pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single charge of invasion of privacy. Authorities allege that Joseph Pereira, 55, was caught shooting the "up skirt" photos on June 24 in Terminal C of Philadelphia International Airport. After the incident, Pereira, from Allegheny County, was grounded by the airline. He remains on indefinite suspension without pay, U.S. Airways spokesman Morgan Durrant said.

LONDON - Brace yourself, Harry. A prominent British public relations man says he has been approached by two women who claim to have more material on Prince Harry, raising the possibility that the world may soon be seeing more compromising images. Last week, the celebrity gossip website TMZ published photos of Harry romping in the nude during a party at his Las Vegas hotel suite. Many Britons have laughed off the 27-year-old prince's high jinks, but questions have been raised about his publicly funded security detail.

Major League Baseball officials have asked Internet sites to remove racy photographs of Cleveland Indians centerfielder Grady Sizemore. Sizemore said the photos - one of them showing him nearly nude - were stolen from his girlfriend's e-mail account and posted online. He contacted baseball officials to stop the spread of the photos, which began appearing Sunday on various Web sites. It is not known how many sites are complying with MLB's request. At least one site, deadspin.

'Documentary Pix: Philadelphia, a Century of Change," now at the Free Library of Philadelphia, is a vivid reminder of the rich trove of images in the central library's ever-expanding print and picture collection. Photos spanning the 20th century - of buildings, neighborhoods, and people, with special attention to the years 1900 and 1950 - are the central attraction. They provide a substantial introduction to a complex period in Philadelphia's history, from a stunning 1950 aerial view of Center City to the proud and well-groomed surviving half of a twin townhouse beginning a new life shorn of its old brick-and-mortar sidekick.